On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 22:28:31 +0200, Jacek Generowicz wrote:
Ben Boeckel writes:
BTW, can anyone recommend a Linux backup solution that Just Works?
There's obnam [...]
At first glance, it seems to inspire more confidence than most. I'll have to give it a go. Thanks.
Yeah, it's just missing a few things and it'd be perfect for me[1].
yet (I've been lacking a landline Internet connection for two months now :/ ) due to my FreeBSD machine being in the process of a rebuild (which is paused do to it lacking Internet).
:-) That's a nice hole you've got yourself into.
Indeed. I've been considering dragging it to $DAYJOB and just spend a day setting the thing up, but I haven't gotten the urge to untangle it and lug it back and forth yet. Not like it's going to be useful outside of the apartment anyways :/ .
Seeing as we're off on a tangent anyway: I've been meaning to give BSD a go for over a decade, but have never managed to get over the activation energy. Could you spare a few words on the topic of which BSD one might start with? (It will have to run on a laptop, in case that makes a difference.)
I don't run it as a main machine, just as a server (jails make securing and sectioning off services dead simple; use ezjail-admin). As for main usage, I trip over nvi != vim all the time, but I doubt you'll have that problem for long :) . Ports are easy to manage port portupgrade, but since I don't do much with it at the top-level (tmux, ezjail-admin, and maybe one or two others), I tend to just do ports manually (with make). Other than that, getting over GNU-isms from coreutils is the biggest hurdle. This is also just FreeBSD; I haven't used OpenBSD, NetBSD, Dragonfly, or PC-BSD at all. --Ben [1]I'd love to be able to do "topic" backups. As an example, higher-end game saves shouldn't be fetched on a machine that can't game well (such as the netbook).